On June 11, 2022, we announced the winners of the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. These winners were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 1,300 book submissions from over 300 publishers.
In addition to the winners below, five special honors were awarded: Kalynn Bayron (Kenan Prize), Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Cordova Prize), Ching-In Chen & Morgan Thomas (Markowitz Prize) , Jobert Abueva (Samuel Prize), Vi Khi Nao & Silas House (Duggins Prize).
You can pick up any of the winning books you haven’t read on our curated list at Bookshop.org, where your purchases benefit Lambda Literary.
Lesbian Fiction
Skye Falling
Mia McKenzie
Random House
Gay Fiction
100 Boyfriends
Brontez Purnell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD x FSG Originals
Bisexual Fiction
We Want What We Want
Alix Ohlin
House Anansi Press
Transgender Fiction
Summer Fun
Jeanne Thornton
Soho Press
Bisexual Nonfiction
Borealis
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Coffee House Press
Transgender Nonfiction
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Da’Shaun L. Harrison
North Atlantic Books
LGBTQ Nonfiction
Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lesbian Poetry Nonfiction
Last Days
Tamiko Beyer
Alice James Books
Gay Poetry
Punks: New and Selected Poems
John Keene
The Song Cave
Bisexual Poetry
Gumbo Ya Ya
Aurielle Marie
University of Pittsburgh Press/Pitt Poetry Series
Transgender Poetry
Crossbones on My Life
Mason J.
Nomadic Press
Lesbian Memoir/Biography
The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had): A Memoir
Sophie Santos
Topple Books
Gay Memoir/Biography
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir
Brian Broome
Mariner Books
Lesbian Romance
The Headmistress
Milena McKay
Self-Published
Gay Romance
Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts
Larry Benjamin
Beaten Track Publishing
LGBTQ Anthology
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Briona Simone Jones (Editor)
The New Press
LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade
Calvin
JR and Vanessa Ford
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
LGBTQ Young Adult
The Heartbreak Bakery
A. R. Capetta
Candlewick Press
LGBTQ Comics
Stone Fruit
Lee Lai
Fantagraphics Books
LGBTQ Drama
Mrs. Harrison
R. Eric Thomas
TRW Plays
LGBTQ Erotica
Big Joe
Samuel R. Delany
Inpatient Press
LGBTQ Mystery
The Savage Kind
John Copenhaver
Pegasus Books
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction
No Gods, No Monsters
Cadwell Turnbull
Blackstone Publishing
LGBTQ Studies
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Anna Lvovsky
University of Chicago Press
